Diverse foraging strategies in lactating New Zealand sea lions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 378, Issue , 2009, Pages 299-308

  Chilvers, B Louise ^a   Wilkinson, Ian S ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Environment and Conservation ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Individual foraging strategies; Management; New Zealand sea lions; Phocarctos hookeri; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; LACTATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PINNIPED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREY PREFERENCE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

OTARIIDAE; PHOCARCTOS HOOKERI;

EID: 63649114768     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07846     Document Type: Article

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